(Sunday morning, April 21, 2013) I am a passenger in a crowded plane. Suddenly we begin a sharp, unexpected descent. We angle into an airport that is in a valley surrounded by mountains. The flight crew gives no indication that this is an emergency landing.
We all disembark at the Abilene airport. I am not sure of my final destination but I know this is not it. I stand with my luggage in the central atrium, which is surrounded by busy stores full of passengers. I don’t see any signage directing me to terminals or gates. I don’t see any signs with flight information. I am panic-stricken and disoriented. Yet all of the other passengers seem to know that the terminal corridors can be reached at the back of the shops.
I look at my ticket/boarding pass. It is in the shape of an hourglass, incised with little rectangular windows. There is an insert I can pull up and down to reveal different information through the windows. Kind of like a slide rule. But I don’t see anything about my connecting flight number or departure time.
I begin to weep uncontrollably. My heart is aching and I feel alone and desperate, a stranger in a strange land.
A man comes up from behind me, at my left shoulder. He is kind, gentle and calm. He asks to look at my ticket. He tells me that my connecting flight leaves at 6 am the next morning and helps me get a room at the hotel across the runway so I can rest.
Day notes:
Both the boarding pass and airport are “X” shaped. “T” and “X” are ancient crosses. They can symbolize the human body, or transformation. “TX”
The little windows in the boarding pass remind me of vertebrate, even in the dream. Pulling the insert up and down is a visual reminder of energy running up and down the spine.
I unexpectedly descend, angle, from the crowded plane (normal existence). I enter a space that is disorienting and without any markers/signs that I can read. I have to rest here, on the ground, before flying further. I have a guide. This dream feels like the kundalini/chi awakening I seem to have fallen into. Although making the commitment to T’ai Chi practice surely is the ticket that I have chosen to purchase, so no accident there …
Ab-i-lene > Ab-i-quiu
What a great dream. love the T and X and landing in Texas. I am so glad you had a guide and that you were to rest. Any follow up dreams the last two nights?
Bonnie, thank you for the lovely card. I love the surrealistic, candy-shaped volcanoes!
I hope you know that you did a lovely job hosting the party. You make everyone feel welcome and at ease. It was just perfect. Not only are you Madame Secretary, you are the Party Planner Extraordinaire.